Letters to the Editor - August 22, 2001

Published 7:00 pm, Tuesday, August 21, 2001

What is the Montgomery County Hospital District hiding from us? Why did it take them a month to provide newspapers answers to simple questions and only because those answers were requested under the Freedom of Information Act? Why did they say that they were spending $150,000 on a proposal that really cost them nearly $200,000? When did they spend that amount of money without a competitive bidding process? Why did the Hospital District's CEO, Giger, resign so suddenly?

Hospital district board … incompetent or dishonest?

To the Editor:

What is the Montgomery County Hospital District hiding from us? Why did it take them a month to provide newspapers answers to simple questions and only because those answers were requested under the Freedom of Information Act? Why did they say that they were spending $150,000 on a proposal that really cost them nearly $200,000? When did they spend that amount of money without a competitive bidding process? Why did the Hospital District's CEO, Giger, resign so suddenly?

These questions stem from the most recent information made available to the public.

There are many other issues that the Hospital District has still failed to address such as possible mismanagement of the tens of millions of dollars received from the hospital they sold and their failure to acknowledge the desires of the more than 23,000 people who signed petitions to have the Hospital District's tax rate lowered.

The only question I have left is this: are the problems experienced by the Hospital District the result of mismanagement and incompetence or do they stem from greed and corruption?

Peter J. Goedeertz

Magnolia

Twins' story inspiring

To the Editor:

I truly enjoyed the story about the twins from Tomball who traveled to Korea and were able to meet their birth mother and other members of their birth family.

I also was adopted and recently found and visited my birth family. You can learn so much about yourself.

To the girls I would like to say congratulations on your wonderful experience!

Kondi Nobles

Posted on Web Site

Twins' story is incredible

To the Editor:

What an incredible story! We have adopted internationally. It is wonderful that families who adopted children from other countries have the opportunity to travel back to the land where the children were born.

The agency should be commended for giving these girls the opportunity to meet some of their birth family members. Thanks for sharing the story.